Purchased for $4.1 million in December of 2014 and relisted for $6.5 million the following September along with plans to transform the legal 3-unit building into a contemporary 7,000-square-foot home, “designed to be used as a single family residence,” the sale of 2620 Buchanan Street has closed escrow with... Read More »

Asking $5.95 million at the end of 2014, the 2,757-square-foot unit #22A on the twenty-second floor of the Four Seasons Residences was reduced to a shell following its approval to be merged with the adjacent unit #22B to create a 3,600-square-foot “super unit,” and its price was subsequently reduced... Read More »

Designed by architect Jeremy Kotas and dubbed the Owl House, for reasons beyond simply being perched high on a hill, 140 Laidley Street quietly traded hand in 2009 for $2.35 million. In addition to the modern two-bedroom house which features an open floor plan, soaring ceilings, a rather distinctive... Read More »

The value at which a residential unit in San Francisco is now considered to be “demonstrably unaffordable and financially inaccessible” by the City’s Planning Department has just been raised to $1.63 million, up from $1.51 million and versus $1.34 million in 2013. The demonstrably unaffordable mark, which is set... Read More »

Legislation which would require special authorization from San Francisco’s Planning Commission in order to merge or remove any residential unit in the city – whether legal, illegal or demonstrably unaffordable – is working its way through the City’s Board of Supervisors. And in addition to further restricting the merger... Read More »

The merger of two adjoining units on the twenty-second floor of the Four Seasons Residences to create a 3,600-square-foot “super unit” with three parking spaces below was approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission last year. The two units, 765 Market Street #22A and 765 Market Street #22B, subsequently hit... Read More »

The merger or absorption of a non-permitted apartment back into the square footage of an existing house, a tactic which has been employed to re-establish properties as single-family homes in order to circumvent rent control and effectively evict tenants by raising their rents to market rates (or more) in... Read More »

As we first reported eight months ago: The owner of the three-bedroom condo #22A at the Four Seasons Residences in San Francisco purchased the adjoining 836 square foot one-bedroom in October of 2008 and would like to merge the two units to create a 3,743 square foot four-bedroom home.... Read More »

Purchased as a three-unit building for $2.6 million three months ago and quickly remodeled as a “lavish” single-family home with gold fixtures, marble countertops and a La Cornue range in the kitchen; an outdoor living room complete with a television mounted over the new gas fireplace out back; and... Read More »

The owner of the three-bedroom condo #22A at the Four Seasons Residences in San Francisco purchased the adjoining 836 square foot one-bedroom in October of 2008 and would like to merge the two units to create a 3,743 square foot four-bedroom home. As the proposed merger will result in... Read More »